{"id":620129,"date":"2026-06-04T04:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:23:15","slug":"anthony-joshua-delivers-stance-on-fight-with-moses-itauma-after-tyson-fury-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620129\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua delivers stance on fight with Moses Itauma after Tyson Fury clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua is open to facing Moses Itauma, in contrast to his bitter rival Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

Young prodigy Itauma is climbing through the ranks and is on the cusp of reaching world level at the age of just 21.<\/p>\n

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Joshua is open to taking on Itauma if the opportunity presents itself in 2027<\/p>\n

The British superstar has yet to be beaten and looks on a one-way collision course for fights with the biggest names in the division.<\/p>\n

In recent times, Fury has indicated he will not entertain a bout<\/a> with Itauma, and plans to avoid him at all costs.<\/p>\n

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> has too suggested he will not take on<\/a> the Chatham powerhouse with a passing of the torch fight unlikely.<\/p>\n

But Joshua has a differing stance to the pair, and is open to the bout in the future.<\/p>\n

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He told reporters: “Listen, it is another opportunity [to face Itauma].<\/p>\n

“Will I, of course. Let me get these two out of the way [Kristian Prenga and Fury].<\/p>\n

“100 per cent, yeah of course why not? There are so many great opportunities presenting themselves.”<\/p>\n

It is clear Joshua is far more open to the bout than other leading names, who are coming to the end of their physical primes.<\/p>\n

Joshua and Itauma have sparred several times in the past, and AJ has been extremely complimentary of the ferocious rising talent.<\/p>\n

Any bout is practically impossible until 2027, with Joshua engaged in a two-fight deal.<\/p>\n

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Joshua will have two fights before he is available against Prenga and FuryCredit: AFP<\/p>\n

The former Olympic gold medallist will first take on Prenga on July 25<\/a> in a warm-up fight, before his signed clash with Fury in the final quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

How long left for Joshua before retirement?<\/p>\n

Of course for the 36-year-old he is closing in on his twilight years.<\/p>\n

Joshua has already achieved it all in the sport as a two-time world champion, but he still has the appetite for more.<\/p>\n

Despite not being in his finest form, there are still some huge bouts available due to his commercial star power.<\/p>\n

And he believes he doesn’t need to retire until he is 40-years-old.<\/p>\n

He explained: “For me, maybe until I’m like 40.<\/p>\n

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“It’s only like three or four years… I’m coming up to 37 in October, so it’s only three years, it’ll go quick. <\/p>\n

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“Obviously it’s gonna be tough, but I definitely think I’m tough enough to do it. <\/p>\n

“Why not, why not? I’m definitely more mature.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua is open to facing Moses Itauma, in contrast to his bitter rival Tyson Fury. Young prodigy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,2560,6102,16171,101,6901,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-moses-itauma","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}